Imagine having Tom Cruise as your building’s superintendent. Long ago, that could have been possible.
Before landing his big break in the 1981 film, “Taps,” the world’s most famous movie star worked as a super in this landmarked limestone Renaissance Revival townhouse on the Upper West Side.
It’s about to hit the market for $14.99 million.
Back then, Cruise lived in a 300-square-foot studio apartment at 50 W. 86th St. His mom paid half the rent — and he paid the rest by changing lightbulbs and taking out the garbage.
In the 1980s, Sarah Jessica Parker and her then-boyfriend, Robert Downey Jr., also lived in the penthouse, which is partly why the townhouse became known as the Good Luck building.
The five-story, 9,165-square-foot townhouse is 25 feet wide with a private gated entrance. It comes with original moldings, an ornate staircase and around 18,000 square feet of air rights.
While the home is currently divided into nine units, including two duplex penthouses, plus a commercial space and pool, it can be converted back to single-family use.
The seller, Therese Flaherty, is a former celebrity makeup and hair artist who lived in the building before buying it from former owners Lee and Libby Allen for $2.7 million in 1999. Lee was an actor, dancer and comedian who played Eddie Ryan in the film, “Funny Girl,” with Barbra Streisand; Libby was a singer and cabaret performer.